48 Truly [a]ye bear witness, and allow the deeds of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.

49 Therefore said the wisdom of God, I will send them Prophets and Apostles, and of them they shall slay, and [b]persecute away,

50 That the blood of all the Prophets, [c]shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:48 When you persecute God’s servants, like mad men, even as your fathers did, though you color it with a pretence of godliness, yet notwithstanding, in that you beautify the sepulchers of the Prophets, what do you else, but glory in your fathers’ cruelty, and set up monuments (as it were) in glory and triumph of it?
  2. Luke 11:49 They shall so vex them and trouble them, that at length they shall banish them.
  3. Luke 11:50 That you may be called to an account for it, yea, and be punished, for the shedding of that blood of the Prophet.

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